May 19, 2008 -
In China, natural disasters have foretold the end of dynasties, and China's massive 8.0
earthquake has given way to rumor and superstition.
The Chinese are looking for a cosmic explanation
for their quake misery - as well as the January snowstorms, March riots in Tibet,
and this month's disastrous cyclone in Myanmar.
Even as the government has scheduled the opening ceremony of the Olympics for 8/8/08, at 8:08pm, some Internet users
have given added significance to the fact that the date for each of this year's disastrous
events adds up to eight.
May 12, the day of the quake, adds up to eight (5, for May, + 1 + 2) and is 88 days before
the opening ceremony.
"One of the things the government is trying hard to avoid is normal people believing that the
heavenly powers are displeased with what is going on here on earth." The 1976 Tangshan
earthquake which claimed around 240,000 lives was widely regarded as a precursor to the death
of Mao Zedong.
According to Chinese astrological charts, 2008, the Year of the Rat on the Chinese lunar
calendar, was destined to be one of tumult and disaster.
"This is a year of earth and water, it means the earth is unstable and water is very
powerful."
The snowstorms which crippled huge swathes of the country from January 25 (which also
totals eight) were the first natural disaster of 2008 and involved water. "The earth was
unstable, and then the quake comes."
The Olympic mascots, five cartoon figures representing four animals and the Olympic torch,
are also being linked to disasters that some chatroom visitors believe should have been
foreseen.
The antelope mascot, Yingying, foretold the Tibet riots.
Huanhuan, the torch mascot, foretold the trouble that plagued the torch's controversial
journey around the world. Nini, the kite, was a portent of an April train disaster in
Shandong province, home of Chinese kite-flying, and Jingjing, the panda, which is found
mostly in Sichuan, pointed to the earthquake.
Whatever is foretold by the sturgeon mascot, Beibei, can only be imagined - "The worst might
be yet to come".
[Site note: The worst hit town - basically wiped off the map - is
Beichuan - which is a combo
of the sturgeon Bei and the torch Huan. And Beichuan was evacuated due to the potential for the
collapse of the dam there].
[In a possibly related item, there was odd sturgeon
behavior
on the other side of the Pacific in Oregon, which was then followed by a strange earthquake swarm.
Biologists with the Army Corps of Engineers say they discovered THE LARGEST GATHERING
EVER OF WHITE STURGEON on the Columbia River. It happened in February.
The number of fish staggered biologists, who estimate as a swarm of as many as 60,000 gathered on the river floor near the Bonneville Dam.
“It’s QUITE UNUSUAL. We don’t understand the behavior."
The discovery began last winter with an investigation into possible erosion near the
spillways.
The dam was not spilling water at the time.
“We identified a pile of what we considered debris,” near Bay #2.
Divers were sent down to investigate the debris - and found all the sturgeon.
Sizes ranged from one foot to 14 feet long.
There were enough to fill 360 big dump trucks.
The fish are no longer gathered near the dam. They dispersed when the Army Corps began
spilling water to help move young salmon down-stream.
(video)
In April, Oregon began having a
mysterious swarm of quakes off the coast. Over several weeks, there were more than 600
small quakes west of the coastal towns of Bandon and Port Orford. They have varied in
magnitude from 3.0 to above 5.0. This earthquake “swarm” is UNIQUE because it is occurring
within the middle of the Juan de Fuca plate – away from the major, regional tectonic
boundaries. “In the 17 years we’ve been monitoring the ocean through hydrophone recordings,
we’ve never seen a swarm of earthquakes in an area such as this." Scientists have said they
don't know exactly what the earthquakes mean. ]
GEORGIA - On May 17th, a group of Native Americans participated in a Stone Mountain
Medicine Wheel Ceremony at Stone Mountain Park to wrest rain from a dry sky and finally break
Georgia's historic drought.
"This is not a rain dance. And please don't call me a Shaman because people think we're devil
worshippers. We are not. We are just trying to heal the Earth and bring back the rain and
fill the streams and stop the tornadoes."
The Stone Mountain ceremony was at the center of a "wheel" of eight simultaneous ceremonies
that will be staged in Columbus, Hawkinsville, and Louisville, Ga.; Talladega and Fort Payne,
Ala.; Athens, Tenn.; Cherokee, N.C.; and Greenwood, S.C.
"If we get everybody to think we can bring water, the more people that can get up there, to
think that — on eight points, and towards the center — guess what we'll get? The rain."
"Stone Mountain is considered a sacred site. And BlueThunder has performed ceremonies such as
this in other places such as Los Angeles."
LeBeau said that land development, the building of highways, the digging of mines — and the
television tower and Confederate carving on Stone Mountain — have wounded the Earth and
brought about the drought and other devastations such as tornadoes.
The ceremony, he said, will heal "the holes in the cuts and seal the electromagnetic energy
that is seeping from the Earth's crust," and that "will bring the water and rain back."
DNA breakthrough may bring back dinos - scientists say it may eventually be possible to
bring a dinosaur back to life, after a world-first experiment with DNA from the extinct
Tasmanian tiger.
DNA from preserved Tasmanian tiger specimens was injected and brought back to life in a mouse
embryo. The tiger DNA was able to grow cartilage and bone in the mouse, showing the extinct
gene could be brought back to life.
The same technique could now be used with other extinct species such as the dinosaur, mammoth
and neanderthal, all of which scientists had large amounts of DNA available.
"I have no doubt the whole creature could be brought back to life in the future."
And creating combinations such as Pterodactyl wings on mice would also be possible.
Britain's parliament has backed the creation of human-animal embryos which some
scientists
say are vital to research cures for diseases but critics argue pervert the course of nature.
British UFO files have been opened for the first time, detailing hundreds of sightings of
unexplained objects in the skies over Britain.
"Most of the UFO sightings here are probably misidentifications of aircraft lights and
meteors, but some are more difficult to explain, and include UFOs seen by police officers and
pilots, and cases where UFOs have been tracked on radar."
Aliens may exist, says Vatican - the search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict
belief in God, the Pope's chief astronomer says.
Even if "we don't currently have any proof... the hypothesis" of extraterrestrial life cannot
be ruled out.
"Just as there are a plethora of creatures on Earth, there could be others, equally
intelligent, created by God."
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